when they turn this down, jerry brown is going to have to decide to cut back on government. keep in mind, he has grown government over the last two years. if you can believe it. i think the democrats are headed to a very difficult space. charles: all right. tom, i think we heard it all. listen, i'm just going to ask, what happened? what happened to your prediction? what's going on in california? >> well, what's going on in california, which matters a lot, first of all, i want to thank all the veterans out there for their guaranteeing our freedoms. what happened is the public employee union spent 70 million dollars passing this tax increase and defeating a paycheck protection. in doing that, they also swamped us at the ballot box when it came to local races what you saw here and it's a very serious message to the rest of the country -- charles: tom, when you came on varney & company, you knew all of that stuff. what made you think -- listen, you know a lot of money is going to be thrown at this thing. what made you think that somehow californians who have been on this -- a pa